| ▲ | Lonestar1440 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
... And what do you think stops them from revoking the passports, today? Do you think it is Courts and the looming Midterms; or are they just flummoxed by the lack of good surveillance data? It's really a fantasy and a silly Taboo. Our Democracy will live or die by politics, not silly rules on data collection at the margins. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dghlsakjg 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Global entry privileges have been revoked for people present at protests already based on facial recognition. Not a fantasy and the taboo has already been broken. While losing access to global entry without due process isn’t the same thing as revoking a passport, it’s awfully close. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/minnesota... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | macintux 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
We’ve never had a central data store that would make it practical to achieve such a feat. Now we have one that could answer questions like this, forever. Mass surveillance at scale is not a trivial problem to solve, but Flock is both making it happen and making it clear that they are fine with enabling bad actors to take advantage of it. | |||||||||||||||||
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